Chris Rock Quote and a Grandaddy Tripple Bill

I love my QI quote book and so here's another, by Chris Rock (with a bit of bad language!) - 

"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon.' Need I say more?"


This is one amazing video and two live clips of the amazing band that was Grandaddy. The first is Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground). Jed was a robot named in another song. The second is Now It's On (on Later... in 2006). The third is So You'll Aim Towards the Sky.

 

 

Gregory Porter - 1960 What? and Franz Kafka

I heard a really nice song on someone's facebook page, called On My Way Back to Harlem. I couldn't find it on youtube though, so here's 1960 What? off his recent (I think) debut. I was so surprised it was a debut. I figured he was from way back.

The quote for today is from Franz Kafka -

"A book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us."

And I need to read more!!!

Quote by James Baldwin and Ash - Girl From Mars

Here's a quote by James Baldwin, which could not easily be surpassed in it's weight of meaning. It couldn't be more true.

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."

In case you don't have a clue who is (like I didn't), here's a piece from wikipedia explaining.

James Baldwin, from Wikipedia

And here's a lovely song (Girl From Mars) by Ash, that's one of my all time favourites. Wish they'd write something like this again! For Chichi-poopoo from Mars!!! Love you XXX

Just in the name of being PC - I wonder if this isn't actually the Irish or Irish/UK version rather than the UK version.

Freud Quote, MIA and Suicide

Here is my quote of the day (that was meant to be yesterday's but I forgot). It made my warm a little more to Sigmund Freud and even read his stuff more seriously (maybe!).

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

I love this, because it's easy to read his stuff and think "Really? REALLY?! You really really think that what it signifies? Really?" But now I shall think about his words a bit more seriously knowing this opinion of his.

The next videos and music have some harsh comtent, but I like them. The first one, Born Free by MIA, contains a sample of the second. I was really happy when I heard it and recently purchased the album , which is pretty awesome all the way though. The second is Ghost Rider by Suicide, which is also from a great album.

And this last one is both MIA and Martin Rev from Suicide performing together on Letterman!

Dennis Potter and The Fall

For Christmas I got a book of quotes, compiled by the guys behind QI. So I thought I'd stick a few here on the blog. Here's one of my favourites by Dennis Potter, writer of The Singing Detective.

"The trouble with words, is that you never know whose mouth they've been in."

And here's Masquerade by the awesome The Fall.

How can someone as grumpy as Mark E Smith, come up with something as danceable as this?!